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Page Won't Load in Internet Explorer

I'm not sure where to post this, so I thought I'd start here, since I'm working with PHP/MySQL. My page at www.geosymbols.org/world/na/usa/wy/flower/ loads fine in Firefox, but it either doesn't load in Internet Explorer or it does so extremely slowly. I certainly haven't been able to open it yet.

The same thing is true on my local site; when I try to access tha page, it freezes. There are probably similar pages - this is just the first one I've discovered.

It may be kind of pointless posting in a PHP forum without posting any PHP script, but I simply have too much to paste here. I thought maybe someone might find a clue in my source code. Maybe it's a JavaScript problem, but I thought I should post here first.

Aha! I just discovered that the problem is with my new script. It's designed to display images regardless of size and file extension. I recently added a script that makes it ignore folders with the same names as images.

Anyway, I just tested it and discovered that it won't work with IE. Can anyone tell me why and how to fix it?

Incidentally, the div width - 250 pixels - doesn't validate, and I haven't figure out how to fix it yet, but I doubt that that has anything to do with this problem.

I wonder if this has something to do with Windows weird folder conventions. For example, I can't create a folder named con on my computer because Windows has reserved "con." And if I try to save an image to usa.jpg and there just happens to be a folder named "usa" in the same directory, Windows saves usa.jpg inside folder usa, rather than OUTSIDE folder usa, where I want it.

So I suspect maybe Internet Explorer is similarly wired for the Twilight Zone, and there may be no way around it.